Pianist Thelonious Monk recorded just one movie soundtrack over the course of his career—for the French film Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (The Dangerous Liaisons), directed by Roger Vadim in 1959. The film was about a married couple who help each other have extramarital affairs (hey, it was France in the late 1950s). Though the film was largely panned,…
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